Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is
I came to this book from another programmer’s GitHub book recommendations. It is a very small book that can be finished in one day. It reads very interestingly and provides some unique methods and cases for thinking about problems and solutions. It is very enlightening. Especially when combined with some experiences and history from my own life and work, the mutual confirmation is very interesting. Many past confusions and troubles disappear. For example, people verbally say they want to solve a problem, but in fact many people do not truly want to solve it. If you help them then, you are doing hard work with no thanks. Discovering their real problem is instead more important. Many problems originate from certain people. Therefore, if you stay away from them, many problems and misfortunes disappear: for example, bad bosses and partners, family of origin, and so on. However, for an orderly S-type and J-type person like me, this is still hard to operate and hard to adapt to, but the inspiration is enormous. N-types and P-types can probably learn a lot from it, and it suits them very well. Interestingly, the author was probably a programmer from the previous century, and many examples and stories are related to that. Although it was only a few decades ago, for the computer industry it is already the medieval period.